74-year-old finds kidney for wife by wearing a sandwich board

A US man who used a sandwich board to advertise for a kidney donor for his wife has succeeded in his mission.
Wayne Winters’ wife Deanne was diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure two years ago.
The 74-year-old couldn’t bear the sight of her suffering, so he came up with an unusual plan to find a donor.
Each day, he’d walk for kilometres along streets near his Utah home wearing a sandwich board that read ‘Need kidney 4 wife’ as Deanne underwent dialysis.

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“I felt like I needed to do something,” Winters told news channel Fox 13 at the time, admitting he didn’t walk “real fast”.

The touching story went viral and now, just three weeks later, Winters’ dedication has paid off.
On Sunday, Deanne picked up the phone and heard the words she and her husband had hoped for: “We have a kidney for you, get down here.”
A donor had passed away and the kidney was a match for Deanne.

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The couple, who have been married for 26 years, are thrilled to have received the gift of more time.

“If she can have a good five years that would be awesome, we can have our life back,” Winters tells Fox 13.In a previous interview with the news channel he said he was looking forward to seeing Deanne return to the way she was before she fell ill - “normal, helping people, loving people”.